Business Acceptance Senior Specialist

About the team

Join our global Legal & Risk team responsible for managing business acceptance and supporting the firm’s risk processes. Collaborating with conflicts lawyers, lawyers and business teams, our team covers conflicts checks, client terms, information barriers, privacy-related requests and audit letter responses.

You will be responsible for

Managing and analysing conflicts checks in the firm’s system

Supporting resolution of legal and commercial conflicts with stakeholders

Advising on client engagement terms, policies and procedures

Reviewing information barrier and clash clearance queries

Authorising information technology requests with data protection implications

Handling audit letter responses and share dealing applications

Supporting training, knowhow updates and process improvement projects

Apply if you

Hold a degree or have relevant experience

Have two to three years of experience in a legal or risk environment

Demonstrate strong analytical, organisational and communication skills

Speak fluent English (min. B2+)

Are proficient in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office tools

Can learn new systems quickly and work with databases

Show initiative, flexibility and strong problem-solving skills

Work well under pressure and build strong relationships across teams

Location

Warsaw (hybrid model - 2 days in the office per week)

Benefits

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Private medical care

Free in-house fitness centre

Life insurance

Worldwide travel insurance for business and non-business travel

Benefit Multisport club card or subsidised travel card

Wide range of training opportunities

About Linklaters

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias, because we want everyone to feel that they belong. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common mind-set.

We recognise that one size does not fit all. Our goal is to embed flexibility across our firm by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

What sets us apart

At Linklaters

We offer a truly global work experience and the opportunity to be involved in strategic projects that drive innovation and shape the future of our business

We belong to a firm that embodies its corporate social, environment and governance responsibility commitments

We celebrate diversity, equity and inclusion so our people can bring themselves to work

We advocate speak-up culture to empower our people in sharing their voices and an open-door policy to ensure they are listened to

We invest in custom-fit career paths for our people in line with their talents and aspirations

We provide agile working solutions to meet the changing needs of our people and our business

We are committed to people first relationships based on mutual trust, respect and appreciation

We support the health and wellbeing of our people, providing a safe space to talk about emotions and mental health with access to expert advice as needed

We invest in developing leaders of the future who demonstrate emotional intelligence and a passion to discover, coach and develop the talents of others

Technical Skills:

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.